In this book, leading researchers in medicine and molecular pharmacology explain the cellular mechanisms that control airway smooth muscle. The means by which these are disrupted in disease, and the pharmacologic strategies by which they may be modified are discussed and future therapeutic interventions are identified. Aimed at specialists... more...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2007. The contents were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on equilibrium, information market, sponsored auction, network economics, mechanism... more...

Written by well-known experts in field, this is the first book dedicated to dealing with the single most challenging management issue in long-term steroid therapy. Overcoming Steroid Insensitivity in Respiratory Disease reviews important new advances in therapeutics and provides the clinician with the most up to date information on one of the... more...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, WAW 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2007 - colocated with WINE 2007, the Third International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics. The 13 revised full papers and five revised short papers presented were carefully... more...

This book presents a new global optimization technique using Taguchi’s method and its applications in electromagnetics and antenna engineering. Compared with traditional optimization techniques, Taguchi’s optimization method is easy to implement and very efficient in reaching optimum solutions.Taguchi’s optimization method is developed based on the... more...

Written as a concise clinical reference guide covering the current and future airway disease treatments, this text encompasses: pathophysiology of respiratory tract diseases the methods of measuring airway and clinical responses the concepts upon which many treatments are used in COPD and asthma conditions the way in which these treatments... more...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2014, held in Beijing, China, in December 2014. The 12 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The aim of the workshop was to further the understanding of graphs that arise from... more...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in December 2016. The 13 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The workshop gathered the researchers who are working on graph-theoretic... more...

Cough is the most familiar symptom of respiratory disease, and a problem which general practitioners must deal with on a daily basis. This timely volume draws together a wealth of recent research into the mechanisms, pharmacology and therapies for cough, and places these in clinical context. The text incorporates guidelines on the most common causes... more...